8 Bible Verses about Snakebites
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If a serpent will bite, unless he is charmed, then there is nothing better for him that owneth a tongue.
Then said Yahweh unto Moses - Make thee a like serpent, and put it upon standard, - and it shall come to pass, that, any one who is bitten, as soon as he seeth it, shall live.
For behold me! sending among you serpents - vipers which there is no charming, - And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.
It cometh to pass that, Dan, is a serpent upon the way, A horned viper, upon the path, - That biteth the heels of the horse, And his rider falleth backwards: -
Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting.
And, though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, from thence, will I search for them and take them, - and, though they conceal themselves from before mine eyes at the bottom of the sea, from thence, will I command the serpent and he shall bite them;
And it was given unto them, that they should not slay them, but that they should be tormented five months; and, the torture of them, was as of a scorpion's torture, whensoever it smiteth a man.
and they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings, and, in their tails, is their licence to injure men five months.